Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Computer Artists

There have been a couple of developments in computer image creation that I thought were worth motioning. The first is called seam carving. The way it works is the computer or user identifies areas of the photograph that are unnecessary.

For instance, given a picture of two kids in a field, you could easily add or remove sections of the grass between the two kids affectively stretching or shrinking the image.

The 1 minute mark of the video has a great example.

The second interesting image processing tool uses a repository of images such as your 10 gigabyte photo library or Google image search. The user provides stick figure drawing of what image they desire, and the system discovers photos and matches them to the sizes provided by the sketch.

1 - I will buy it
2 - I'll buy it at discount
3 - Other people think it's good, but I wasn't interested when I first heard about it
M - Mainly Multiplayer. See if friends get interested.
? - Find out more about this game
PC? - Will it be released on the PC?